Growing up, the author felt that Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book anthology regarding a character named “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” was like a never-ending story because of the last egg. So 49 years later, ...
Kipling’s Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a gallant little mongoose, loved everything but snakes. His great enemies were the cobra family. Rikki was contemptuously friendly with Chuchundra, a muskrat, and on fair ...